NHL NOTEBOOK: KINGS REACH DEALS WITH THREE PLAYERS.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services Joe Corvo Joe Corvo (born June 20 1977, in Oak Park, Illinois) is a professional hockey player who currently is signed to the Ottawa Senators. Corvo was drafted by the Los Angeles Kings in the 4th round of the 1997 NHL draft. accepted his qualifying offer from the Kings on Monday and will make $668,800 this season. Corvo, a 28-year-old defenseman, is the last of the Kings' major restricted free agents to re-sign with the team. The Kings also signed forward Jeff Tambellini Jeff Tambellini (born April 13, 1984, in Port Moody, British Columbia) is a professional hockey player. His father, Steve Tambellini, played in the NHL as a member of the New York Islanders. , their first-round pick in the 2003 draft, to a multi-year, entry- level contract, and free-agent defenseman Brad Fast Brad Fast (born February 21, 1980 in Fort St. John, British Columbia) is a professional ice hockey defenceman. He spent his amateur career in the British Columbia Hockey League, and was selected in the third round of the 1999 NHL Entry Draft, 84th overall, by the Carolina to a one-year contract. -Rich Hammond --Ducks moves: A series of moves by the Mighty Ducks resolved the immediate future of two of their four restricted free agents by the deadline. But defenseman Ruslan Salei, 30, wasn't included in that group. The eight-season Ducks veteran had the deadline to get a deal done extended to Sept. 7 because of a wrinkle in the new collective bargaining agreement The contractual agreement between an employer and a Labor Union that governs wages, hours, and working conditions for employees and which can be enforced against both the employer and the union for failure to comply with its terms. . The move prevents another team from making an offer while negotiations continue. The team also announced that former first-round pick Stanislav Chistov, 22, would spend the 2005-06 season playing in his native Russia with the Magnitogorsk Metallurg of the Russian Hockey League. Defenseman Mark Popovic, 22, accepted a one-year qualifying offer. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. -A.J. Perez --No deal: The Czech and Russian hockey federations refused to sign the proposed player transfer agreement between the NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there and the sport's world governing body as the deadline passed, leaving unsettled the NHL's participation in next year's Turin Olympics. The expired NHL-IIHF agreement covered player transfers, as well as NHL players' participation in Olympic, world championship and World Cup tournaments. The IIHF IIHF International Ice Hockey Federation and NHL are still in talks to decide on their next course of action. --Dealings: John LeClair, let go by Philadelphia in the first wave of NHL salary dumping last month, signed a two-year contract with Pittsburgh. ... Captain Patrick Marleau, forward Marco Sturm and defenseman Brad Stuart re-signed with the San Jose Sharks The San Jose Sharks are a professional ice hockey team based in San Jose, California, United States. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). , agreeing to multiyear contracts. ... Vancouver re-signed restricted free agent defenseman Sami Salo to a two-year contract. |
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